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Shashi Deshpande
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Pilgrims and a glimmer of hope: Why the Bharat Jodo Yatra excites the writer in Shashi Deshpande
‘This yatra has neither a god nor a shrine at the end of it.’
Shashi Deshpande
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What is ‘medical feminism’ and how does it affect the lives of women in the US and India?
Author Shashi Deshpande dissects the growing opposition to women’s selfhood.
Shashi Deshpande
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Was writer F Scott Fitzgerald an early appropriator – of his wife Zelda’s story ideas?
Scott’s argument that he owned his wife Zelda’s mind, her creativity, as well as her life and their life together, is hard to accept.
Shashi Deshpande
Trending
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Mauritian Bhojpuri is being dressed in Hindu nationalist robes – and I’m in mourning
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Young professionals are fleeing crisis-hit Pakistan in hope of a better future
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Toddler says she didn’t like ‘Pathaan’, Shah Rukh Khan posts video with a promise to work harder
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Watch: ‘3 Idiots’ stars Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, R Madhavan comically reunite to promote new film
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‘Class’ review: An immersive and revealing show about privilege
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Novelist Shashi Deshpande on how to read (or rather, how not to read) the writing of women
‘Can we continue to regard women writers as a separate species?’
Shashi Deshpande
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Why have we lost the spirit of questioning handed down by the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics?
How can we, superstition-ridden, and unable or refusing to think for ourselves, be the descendants of the writers of these works, asks novelist Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande
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Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things?
Novelist Shashi Deshpande fears the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will not add dignity and prestige to women’s writing overnight.
Shashi Deshpande
Video
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Toddler says she didn’t like ‘Pathaan’, Shah Rukh Khan posts video with a promise to work harder
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Watch: TV host Ellen DeGeneres surprised with marriage vow renewal ceremony by wife Portia de Rossi
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Watch: This dog was taking a ride on the roof of a car in Bengaluru
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Eco India: Why are sparrows continuing to disappear from Indian cities?
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Watch: Adele moved to tears as fan shows up with picture of his late wife to her Las Vegas show
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‘Lady Susan’: Novelist Shashi Deshpande on Jane Austen’s novel of the femme fatale (and her oeuvre)
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18, 1817.
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Hathras gangrape is a reminder that no party really cares about women or Dalits
Each case of rape seems to bring out a different kind of cruelty that lies latent within us.
Shashi Deshpande
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‘Write about what is happening to the world? I can’t’: Shashi Deshpande on the coronavirus
‘Sometimes I wonder what it will be like, a world without the old.’
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The Reel
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Start the week with a film: Horses and a quietly thumping heart in ‘The Rider’
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‘Class’ review: An immersive and revealing show about privilege
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‘Jehanabad – Of Love & War’ review: A heavily spiced account of an audacious jailbreak
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‘Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat’ review: A throbbing musical about forbidden passion
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‘Faraaz’ review: A shallow exploration of 2016 Dhaka terror attack
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On International Women’s Day, a reminder of what women really want
As women across India come out to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act, have we reached a turning point?
Shashi Deshpande
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Citizenship Amendment Act protests across the country are reviving old heroes and forgotten ideals
The student-led movement has given us some painful images, but also some powerful ones.
Shashi Deshpande
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Shashi Deshpande: ‘Rape is an offshoot of the idea of power. Most women still remain powerless’
All the poems, the novels, the stories authors write, all the terrible stories that journalists give the world, cannot stop a single man from raping.
Shashi Deshpande
The Field
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Fantasy football: Stressful or fun – is it the enjoyable hobby it was meant to be?
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Chamari Athapaththu column: Sri Lanka have never been as confident as we are ahead of this World Cup
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Premier League: Jurgen Klopp on Liverpool’s poor run of form – ‘I have no words for it’
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WPL: Mumbai Indians hire Charlotte Edwards, Jhulan Goswami, Devieka Palshikaar in coaching staff
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Mithali Raj column: India’s chances at the T20 World Cup will be largely dependent on the top order